Congratulations! You made it! You survived and excelled in your student teaching. You are now a science teacher! If you would, take a few minutes to share your wisdom about how to negotiate this difficult year with the students who are following in your footsteps by answering the following questions.
a. What are some things students should do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
Some things to take full advantage of for your fall practicum to make student teaching go more smoothly are: creating a good working relationship with your cooperating teacher, getting to know your students as much as possible, getting from your CT the topics of lessons that you will be teaching (while your student teaching) and keep tabs with them to see where they will be when you take over, have a general idea of what you will be teaching and start to play around or look into activities in addition to your unit plan, get all the books, teacher resources etc that the teacher uses to see what you can and will be able to use while your teaching and familiarize yourself even start to find cool things that you like and can see yourself teaching. Also, scope out the technology that you will have access to which will help you start to think about what you can use and how you will use them to teach.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
I missed a good part of 430 because I had a baby so I am not well prepared to answer this. Just make sure that you have a good, thoughtful and thorough unit plan and look at the things I talked about above.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have been better prepared for student teaching if I had ...."
My ipad, which I got and it was such an amazing tool!!!!!!!!!!!!! Use evernote to help plan and organize schedules/lessons. I was always two weeks ahead or tried to be so I knew where I was going and what I was doing, that way I didnt have to stress about it the week or weekend before, I had everything copied 2 weeks in advance and had everything ready and organized. Better to be over-prepared than underprepared. Kids also like to waste time or they have questions and you can find yourself with the period over and you haven't accomplished everything you wanted try to stay focues and on task but make sure you answer their questions or have them write them down and answer them at another time so you can get through the material.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share? It flys by. I can't believe it. It is a lot of fun and make the most out of it as you can because by the end, your a teacher so take full advantage of the time and assistance you have because once it's your classroom, your it! Be confident, have fun and stay positive.
a. What are some things students should do in their fall practicum to make their student teaching go more smoothly?
Some things to take full advantage of for your fall practicum to make student teaching go more smoothly are: creating a good working relationship with your cooperating teacher, getting to know your students as much as possible, getting from your CT the topics of lessons that you will be teaching (while your student teaching) and keep tabs with them to see where they will be when you take over, have a general idea of what you will be teaching and start to play around or look into activities in addition to your unit plan, get all the books, teacher resources etc that the teacher uses to see what you can and will be able to use while your teaching and familiarize yourself even start to find cool things that you like and can see yourself teaching. Also, scope out the technology that you will have access to which will help you start to think about what you can use and how you will use them to teach.
b. What 430 topics/assignments should students make sure are addressed in detail to prepare them for student teaching?
I missed a good part of 430 because I had a baby so I am not well prepared to answer this. Just make sure that you have a good, thoughtful and thorough unit plan and look at the things I talked about above.
c. Help the next group of science education student teachers by completing the thought: "If I knew in September what I know now, I could have been better prepared for student teaching if I had ...."
My ipad, which I got and it was such an amazing tool!!!!!!!!!!!!! Use evernote to help plan and organize schedules/lessons. I was always two weeks ahead or tried to be so I knew where I was going and what I was doing, that way I didnt have to stress about it the week or weekend before, I had everything copied 2 weeks in advance and had everything ready and organized. Better to be over-prepared than underprepared. Kids also like to waste time or they have questions and you can find yourself with the period over and you haven't accomplished everything you wanted try to stay focues and on task but make sure you answer their questions or have them write them down and answer them at another time so you can get through the material.
d. Are there other words of wisdom/encouragement that you want to share?
It flys by. I can't believe it. It is a lot of fun and make the most out of it as you can because by the end, your a teacher so take full advantage of the time and assistance you have because once it's your classroom, your it! Be confident, have fun and stay positive.